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Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide

This guide was created as an overview of the Linux Operating System, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter.
For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. This book contains many real life examples derived from the author's experience as a Linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. They hope these examples will help you to get a better understanding of the Linux system and that you feel encouraged to try out things on your own.

Pear Linux is a French Ubuntu-based desktop Linux distribution. Some of its features include ease-of-use, custom user interface with a Mac OS X-style dockbar, and out-of-the-box support for many popular multimedia codecs.

Would you recommend the product? no | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 1

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Pear Linux doesn’t have a good track record. One reviewer called version 3 ‘a nest of bugs’. When I tried version 5, the live session worked reasonably well, but the installation wouldn’t boot because the configuration files in initrd were faulty: services were being started in the wrong order.

In version 6, the live session gave me a blank screen. I went to tty1 and typed ‘dmesg’, only to get ‘d,esg’: a French keyboard driver! Luckily I knew that I needed ‘d;esg’ and I found the expected message: udev-fallback-graphics had failed, a problem that’s been in and out of Ubuntu since Natty. I gave the command ‘sudo killall Xorg’ and got to the live session: with a request to log in. After a few guesses I went back to tty1 and set a new password. After I’d logged in with it, the screen went black again. This time the problem was ‘non-acceptable hardlink creation was attempted by dconf-service’. I could have tried to install, but I decided that I wasn’t going to let this rubbish mess with my hard drive, so that was that.

The developer describes this version on the web site as ‘The most advanced desktop OS that i never made.’ Well, yes.